U.S. Senate to Vote on Lynch for Attorney General This Week

Loretta Lynch
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate could vote this week on President Barack Obama's nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday.

The vote on Lynch, a federal prosecutor nominated in November to head the Department of Justice, could come now that there is a deal between Republicans and Democrats on an unrelated bill clamping down on domestic human trafficking, McConnell said.

(Reporting By David Lawder; Editing by Susan Heavey)

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